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SURVEYING STUDENT LIFE We arc a counuunity-m-miniature. students But we do not take all of these events in it small college responsible for building lightly. Just as our little campus pavillion lTlany of our own recreational and academic sits in the center of the Hill, so the spirit of diversions. we are called the "apathetic gen- its inscrrption, Diem, is beginning to eration," yet we are capable of harshly criticiz- plant itself firmly 0111' minds and attitudes. ing our own actions. \'Ve know that tomorrow we discover an interest in common with other we inherit the cyclotron, but today we must people and we [arm a dub-or, more fre- learn how to laugh at ourselves. quently, we simply sit down and talk about it. Gradually, we form ties with the world Our college lifc is based all friendliness and outside our memorial arch and beyond the informality professors know our first llighways. names; house mothers make pop-corn for us: and we all say "Hi!" to eVeJ)'ollc. In shan, we are discovering that social ac- tivities are a vital part of our college li[e- Our college life is composed of small but that our crazy antics in the dorm, those late memorable incidents sillg'ing "Happy card games and special dances, our standing Birthday" in the dining hall, dancing in the jokes, and even the organized confusion of student lounge on a snowy winter night, join- getting lip late for class